Bracket.



J. B. CAVEY.

BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1913.

1,092,020, Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

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TJNTTEE TA JOHN EWING CAVEY, OF OTIS, COLORADO.

BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

Application filed September 24, 1913. Serial No. 791,587.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J or-rn EWING (lawn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Otis, in the county of Washington and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an improvement in brackets, primarily adapted for use as a support for portable clocks, but of course is susceptible to other uses, and the invention resides in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective View of the bracket in its extended position and supporting a portable clock, Fig. 2 is a side elevation illustrating one of the members of the bracket folded upon the second member.

The improvement can be successfully applied upon bedsteads, bureaus or other articles of furniture, window or door, frames or the like and is adapted to support a portable clock, preferably an alarm clock and position the same near the bed of a sleeper, so that the alarm will arouse the sleeper, and furthermore to arrange the clock to any desired angle so that the face of the same may be readily perceptible by the occupant of a room. The device may be hung upon a bedstead or the like, but when attached to a frame or other support within the room, the device is secured through the medium of a suitable screw passing through an opening in a straight arm which is integrally formed upon one of the spring members 2 of the bracket. The spring member 2 is arched upwardly and away from the straight arm 1, as indicated by the numeral 3, the said arch being bent rearwardly and upwardly toward the arm 1 to provide what may be termed a lip 4:, and from thence arched outwardly and downwardly, as at 5, and terminating in an angularly disposed foot 6. The material from which the member 2 is formed is of a sufficient width to permit of the arm finding a firm bearing upon the structure to which it is attached, and the arched portions 8 and 5 exert a slight tension toward each other, and the device may be inserted over a portion of a bedstead which is of sufficient width to be received between the arches 3 and 5, while again the top and rounded rail or the upper connecting bar of an iron or brass bedstead may serve for supporting the device by arranging the spring member 2 thereover and bringing its lip and the portion of the arch 5 into frictional contact with the said rounded portion of the bedstead. The foot 6 at its juncture with the arch 5 is rounded, as indicated by the numeral 7, the co-acting spring member 8 also including a foot 9 which is of a greater length than the foot 6, and which is pivotally connected to the said foot 6, as at 10. The foot 9 has its free extremity bent angularly toward the foot 6, as indicated by the numeral 11, the said angular portion providing an engaging lip which contacts with the rounded portion 7 of the spring member 2 with sufficient force to sustain the member 3 parallel with or at a desired angle with relation to the said member 2. The foot 9 is formed with an arch-shaped extension 12 which is bent upwardly and outwardly from the said foot and which corresponds with the arch 3. The arched portion 12 is bent inwardly and extended outwardly to provide a rounded lip 18 which co-incides with the lip 4:, and the material from which the member 8 is provided is bent arcuately from the said lip, as indicated by the numeral 12, the said arch corresponding to the arch 5 of the member 2, and the said portion 14: terminates in an upturned hook 15.

When the device is in its extended position, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the element 11 of the member 9 frictionally contacting with the rounded portion 7 of the member 2 sustains the members in either an angular or parallel relation, and the member 8 being also constructed of spring metal has its portions 11 and 14 exerting an outward tension, so it will be noted that when the members are swung together, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the hook 15 will engage with the lower portion of the arch 3 of the member 2 and spring the member 8 to force its arched portions 5 and 14 into tight engagement with each other.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the simplicity of the device as well as the. advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such inventions appertain without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is: Y

1. A clock bracket including an arm, an arched member integrally formed with the arm said arched member being bent to provide a lip and continued from the lip in an areuate direction and rounded outwardly and provided with a foot, a second member also provided with a foot which is pivotally connected with the foot of the first mentioned member, the foot of the second member having an angularly bent portion which is adapted to frictionally contact with the rounded juncture of the foot of the first mentioned member and its arch, the second mentioned member being arched upwardly and outwardly from its foot and extended inwardly to provide a rounded lip and from thence arched outwardly and having its extremity formed with a hook.

2. A clock bracket comprising two spring members, one adapted to be folded within the other, one of said members including a supporting arm, an arch member extending from the supporting arm and bent inwardly to provide a lip and from thence arched outwardly and curved to provide a horizontal foot, the second member being also provided with a horizontal foot whlch is of a greater length than the first mentioned foot an arch and in a downward direction and terminating in an upset foot, the arched members of the first mentioned member adapted to exert a tension toward each other, the arched portions of the first mentioned member adapted to exert a tension away from each other, the second mentioned member adapted to be swung upon the first mentioned member and to have its tongue contact with the first mentioned arch of the first mentioned member to spring its first mentioned arch into frictional contact with the second mentioned arch of the first mentioned member. 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signa ture in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN EWING GAVEY,

Witnesses:

R- E. GI-IAPIN, C. H. Grs'r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. Y 

